Summer Wages lyrics

Never hit seventeen

When you play against the dealer

You know that the odds

Won't ride with you

Never leave your woman alone

With your friends around to steal her

She'll be gambled and gone

Like summer wages

And we'll keep rollin on

Till we get to Vancouver

And the lady that I love

Shes living there

Its been six long months

And more since I've seen her

Maybe she's gambled and gone

Like summer wages

(Chorus)

In all the beer parlors

All down along Main Street

The dreams of the season

Are spilled down on the floor

All the big stands of timber

Wait there just for fallin'

The hookers standing watchfully

Waitin by the door

I'm going to work on them towboats

With my slippery city shoes

Lord I swore I would never do that again

Through the great fog bound straights

Where the cedars stand waitin

I'll be lost and gone

Like summer wages

In all the beer parlors

All down along Main Street

The dreams of the season

Are spilled down on the floor

All the big stands of timber

Wait there just for fallin'

The hookers waiting watchfully

Standing by the door

Never hit seventeen

When you play against the dealer

You know that the odds

Won't ride with you

Never leave your woman alone

With your friends around to steal her

She'll be gambled and gone

Like summer wages

And the years are gambled and lost

Like summer wages

• Artist:Ian Tyson
• Album:Cowboyography (1986)